george l. c. br1qgs. sub.-lieutenant, r.n. killed in
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GEORGE L. C. BR1QGS.Sub.-Lieutenant, R.N.,
Killed in Action, October. 23rd, 1916.
STAS, ET IN XETERNUM STES, AQUILINA DOMUS.
XMAS TERM, 1916.
EDITORIAL.
AGAIN the hand of War has lain heavy on EagleHouse, and the tale of sacrifice is increased by the
loss of three other quite young lives. George Briggs,Frank Delamain, and Jack Girling were all such recentand such distinguished members of the school, that theirearly death comes as an especially severe blow. How wellwe remember them all—all so different and yet all withbrains combined with prowess in the field. Briggs shone
in both our games, Delamain in Cricket, and Girling inFootball. All did well in their, work and Girling indeedbrilliantly. This loss of young life weighs heavily uponus: to show how heavily, we may mention that of the XV.that won our first victory over the Dragons in November,1907, already seven have made the full sacrifice in thewar. Below we give accounts of these three; also of J. R.Reid, of whose death a notice appeared in a postscript toour Summer number.
We give photographs of Briggs, Girling, and Reid;the first as a Midshipman, the last in his Sandhurst uniform.We regret we have been unable to obtain a photograph ofDelamain.
We publish a list of all our Old Boys who have fallen,or been wounded in this War. A new list of all those whoare serving is reserved till next number.
Our other illustrations are the Fifteen and two of theShakesperian Play. These, with the actors in the FrenchPlay, have been taken so that our series of photos maynot be completely broken.
PRO PATRIA.
THE WAR.
GEORGE LEONARD CLAYTON BRIGGS, son of Col. W. E.Briggs, Qu'Appelle, Winchester, born January 25th,1896, entered Eagle House in May, 1905. He greatlydistinguished himself in games as a back (three-quarter) at football and a bowler at Cricket. Heplayed in our victory at Osborne and in the greatmatches with Lynam's and Wells House, and did agreat bowling performance (5 for 7) which won us acritical-match v. The Towers. In 1909 (Jan. 7th) he
JAMES ROBERT REID.Lieut., 1st Royal Berks. Regiment.
Missing, believed Killed July 27th, 1916.
passed on to Osborne and had a very successfulcareer both there and at Dartmouth. He served atsea in the R.N. for nearly four years, and took partin the great battles of Heligoland and the DoggerBank, and was on board the Princess Royal in hergreat fight with the Moltke. On- October 23rd he wassecond in comma.nd on the Mine-Sweeper Genista,which was then reported to have been sunk by a sub-marine, with the loss of all officers and 73 men. TheGenista put up a plucky fight, engaging the submarineto the last.
JAMES ROBERT REID, Lieut., ist Royal Berkshire Regt,reported "Missing" on July 27th, 1916. Aged 19years and seven months. Left the R.M.C. Dec. 23rd,1914. Gazetted to the 3rd Royal Berkshire Regiment,at Portsmouth. Went to France, March, 1916.Reported Missing during the attack in Delville Wood.His Commanding Officer writes:—" Your son was abrave and capable officer, and young as he was, he wasin command of a Company." Another officer in theRegt. writes to a friend :—" Reid was one of the verybest fellows, both in and out of the trenches. I neversaw him in the least afraid. He and Hamilton usedto do most daring work on night patrols when wewere on Vimy Ridge, they were continually volun-teering for dangerous patrols." Later on the sameofficer writes:—"I can only think that Reid held hisground against a heavy counter-attack with a merehandful of exhausted men, and was killed at his post.He was guarding the flank of the Brigade, and if hehad given ground, we should probably have lost veryheavily indeed. His post was the most responsibleof any of the Company's Commanders, although it wasthought, previous to the attack, that his Companywould suffer least."
CHARLES JOHN GIRLING, elder son of Dr. C. J. Girling,of Cranbourne, born 2Qth May, 1897, came to EagleHouse in 1910, after the closing of Hartford House.He rapidly came to the front, becoming Head Prefectand a very valuable member of the XV., and gainedan open Scholarship at Wellington College. HisPublic School career was one of the highest merit.His Scholarship was raised; he became a CollegePrefect, and Head of his House. He was in the XV.,second officer —and a very able one—in the O.T.C.,and Head of Gymnasium. He won prizes for Jumpingand had a long list of prizes in School work. Chiefamong his distinctions were the Frew MathematicalPrize, The Frew Science Prize, and the Carr Litera-ture Prize, honours open to the School. He crownedthis splendid career with an Open Scholarship, wonat Corpus Christi, Oxford, at the end of 1915. Hethen joined the Hampshire Regiment Reserve Batt.After his training he went to the front, and has nowfallen in the fight for his King and Country.
FRANK GUN DELAMAIN, only son of Col. F. G. Delamain,late I.A., born in 1897, came to Eagle House inSeptember, 1907. He won a name here chiefly byhis wonderful slow bowling which puzzled many bats-men : four wickets for four runs, he had once v. Wixen-ford. He was also in the XV. and acted well in"Browne, with an E." (1910). He left in July, 1911,and went on to St. Lawrence's College, Ramsgate. Hedid well in the Army Class and got into the R.M.A.From there he passed into the R.F.A., and had notbeen long at the front, when he fell in action. FrankDelamain had grown into a tall fellow of 6 feet whenhe went to the front. He was shot dead through theheart by a sniper, on September 21 st, while on his wayto the observation post.
CHARLES JOHN CURLING.Lieut. The Hampshire Regt.
Killed in Action, October 23rd, 1916.
sROLL OF HONOUR.
[KILLED OR DIED OF WOUNDS.]
Lieutenant David E. Boyle, Lancashire Fusiliers.Captain Bertram N. Denison, K.O. Yorkshire Light
Infantry.Second Lieutenant Charles M. Stanuell, Durham Light
Infantry.Lieutenant Frank C. Ledgard, The Yorkshire Regiment.Captain Arthur E. Bradshaw, I4th (Jat.) Lancers.Lieutenant W. H. Holbech, the Scots Guards.Captain Arthur M. Rundall, 4th Gurkha Rifles.Lieutenant-General S. H. Lomax, Commanding the First
Division.Lieutenant A. Douglas Thompson, The King's i st Dragoon
Guards.Major John H. D. Costeker, D.S.O., Warwickshire Regt.Major John H. Deane, 2nd Hampshire Regiment.Major H. M. Finch, D.S.O., 2nd Berkshire Regiment.Lieutenant Geoffrey W. V. Hopley, 2nd Grenadier Guards.Second Lieutenant Eric W. Gorst, 4th Royal Fusiliers.Lieutenant Norman Bruce Lockhart, 7th Seaforth High-
landers.Major Edward S. Gooch, the Berkshire Yeomanry.Lieutenant M. Austin Murray, i ith Essex Regiment.Major Spencer M. Tahourdin, I2th Indian Cavalry.Lieutenant Walter Wynne Nicholas, Duke of Cornwall's
Light Infantry.Lieutenant Philip Ramsay Tahourdin, 47th Sikhs, LA.Lieutenant-Commander Ralph Clayton, R.N.Captain James A. Andrews, Devonshire Regiment.Lieutenant James Robert Reid, Royal Berkshire Regt.Sub-Lieutenant George L. C. Briggs, R.N., H.M.S. Genista.Second Lieutenant Frank G. Delamain, R.F.A.Second Lieutenant Charles John Girling, Hampshire Regt.Captain George C. Denton, I2th Pioneers, LA.
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Second Lieutenant K. G. G. Dennys, Somerset LightInfantry (prisoner).
Second Lieutenant G. Gorst, 3rd E. Lancashire Regiment.Second Lieutenant H. D'O. Lyle, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.Lieutenant J. B. Morgan, The Suffolk Regiment.Captain N. G. Pearson, loth Gordon Highlanders.Lieutenant R. M. M. Lockhart, 5ist Sikhs, F.F.Lieutenant F. C. Townshend, Rifle Brigade.Lieutenant C. Simmons, Lincoln Regiment.Lieutenant C. de V. Hinde, Royal Berkshire Regiment.Captain M. Robertson, Lancashire Fusiliers.
WAR NEWS.
Vice-Admiral A. W. Chisholm-Batten (E.H. 1860—4)retired from the Navy in 1907, but on the out-break ofthe War he at once volunteered for service. As therewere no vacancies for Admirals he accepted the cap-taincy of a small vessel, H.M.S. lolanda, and at theage of 65 is hunting submarines in the Mediterranean.
Alexander W. Chisholm Batten (E.H. 1909—13), in Sept,1916, joined as a midshipman in his first ship, H.M.S.
. Those of us who remember his stonewallcourage and persistent energy at football, will see thelaw of heredity and will wish the son no better fortunethan to follow in his father's footsteps.
F. C. Townshend (E.H. 1908—10) we regret to hear wasseverely wounded some time ago. He went to th?front in the Rifle Brigade, at the beginning of the war.and saw hard service. We have had no direct news ofhim, but should be glad to get it.
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Gerald Forsyth (EH. 1890—4) is now A.D.C. to theGeneral commanding the Fifth Division.
C. H. S. Pain (E.H. 1907—11) left Bradfield and joined theArtists' Rifles, but has been accepted, to his great,delight, by the Royal Flying Corps.
Maurice Wiseman (E.H. 1903—7), after 18 months in thePublic School Brigade, including a winter in thetrenches, came home in March, 1916, for a course atOxford and in June got a commission in the RifleBrigade and went to the front in France about the endof August.
R. M. M. Lockhart (E. H. 1906—7), Lieut., 5ist Sikhs, onrecovering from his illness, returned to the Meso-potamian front in September. After three months onactive service there, he was again invalided to India(this time with enteric), on igth December, and was toreach Bombay about Christmas Day. He was men-tioned in Despatches for his good work in the effortto relieve Kut in the Spring of 1916.
Charlie Simmons (E.H. 1904—8), who came back fromFrance after being wounded, is living at home inCamberley, and has come over several times to see us.He is a Lieutenant in the Lincoln Regiment.
D. H. Yatman (E.H. 1907—12) is a 2nd Lieutenant in hisfather's old Regiment, the Northumberland Fusiliers.He has been twice sent from the Depot with Drafts toFrance.
Ralph Whmyates (E.H. 1893—8), 8th Hussars, is Captainof a Trench Mortar Battery.
Guy Whinyates (E.H. 1893—8) is in France in the Intel-ligence Corps.
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Fergus Forbes (E.H. 1907—12) went to the front in Sept.,and spent his i8th birthday in the firing line. He isattached to the Machine Gun Corps, and is in chargeof four guns. He was made Billeting Officer, becausehe spoke French better than the others—he says helearnt all his French at Eagle House. He has beentransferred to the Coldstream Guards, the Regimentin which his grandfather, Lord Forbes, fought atWaterloo.
R. Lepel-Griffin (E.H. 1908—n) has also joined the Cold-stream Guards, and is a 2nd Lieutenant in training,at Windsor.
W. E. Coles (E.H. 1910—11) passed out of Woolwich aboutNovember 23rd, and went out to the front in theR.F.A., about ten days later.
John L. T. Widdicombe (E.H. 1909—13) passed out ofSandhurst in the end of October and sailed for Indiaat the end of September. He hopes to get into hisfather's regiment, the 2nd Gurkhas.
G. P. Pattinson, R.N., has joined or is just about to join,his first ship5.
Victor Tahourdin (E.H. 1891—5), Cheshire Regiment, hasbeen a prisoner in Germany since Mons. Has twicebeen picked out to be sent to Switzerland, but wassent back from Constance by the German doctors, invery bad health.
Edward T. Malan (E.H. 1893—8) enlisted in the PublicSchools Battalion, in May, 1915. He was invalided inAugust, and is now working in Munition Works atSheffield.
Denys Chataway (E.H. 1903—6) has just had a seriousflying accident, and has injured his eye. He is nowlaid up in a nursing home in London,
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John Clayton (E.H. 1892—6) is a Chaplain at the Front.George Denton (E.H. 1892—5), LA., was killed in East
Africa.Corporal A. G. Malan (E.H. 1886—90), I4th Devons,
interpreter to his Company Officers in France.Major L. N. Malan (E.H. 1886—91), R.E., LA., in East
Africa, since December, 1914.Major Harold Richards (E.H. 1883—7), A.S.C., is now in
France.Private J. C. Malan (E.H. 1892—8), 2nd Canadian Mounted
Rifles, was in the trenches for 6 months last Winter.He is now attached to the Canadian Cavalry Depot,at Shorncliffe.
Vice-Admiral W. L. Grant, C.B. (E.H. 1874—6) to beK.C.B.
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The D.S.O. has been given to—Lieut-Col. H. E. Garston, R.A. (E.H. 1884—6).Lieut.-Col. V. A. Flower, London Regt. (E.H. 1885—9).Major W. B. Stilwell, Hants Regt. (E.H. 1890—3).Lieut. O. C. Bragge, Dorset Yeomanry (E.H. 1883—
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Mentioned in Despatches.—Lieutenant William Vesey Hamilton Harris, R.N.Admiral's Despatches. (E.H. 1898—1902).
For his services in command of the armed launchSumana on the 24th July, 1915, when he behavedwith great gallantry under very heavy gun andrifle fire whilst placing a barge across the Meje-nineh creek to bridge it for the troops.
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SCHOOL NOTES.
ERM began on Thursday, September 2ist. The fol-lowing new boys joined that day : —
G. Derrick* B. Swmey, Walter A^ Stewart, WilliamF. H. Newirigton, Thomas W. K. Moffat, Allan Adair,Rupert M. Blcftldy, and later, Granville Alexander Hogg.
This made the number on the Roll 59, but Conran andGarnett fell out for the term, by doctor's advice, and severalboys were late of returning for similar reasons.
We\ found the fields very over-grown and the pitchdisfigures! by an abundant crop of weeds. This necessi-tated a great deal of extra work of weeding, raking, top-dressing, and sowing. This unfortunately, was muchhindered first by the labour required to meet the lightingregulations, and then by the broken weather. Things lookbetter now, but we fear only a fraction of the seed sown,will come to anything.
One of the first things that had to be done, was tomeet the new " Lighting Regulations," by providing cur-tains to obscure our many lights. This was a very heavytask for the Sergeant, and all who could, helped him.Fourteen windows had to be curtained in Big School alone,the great windows in the Hall and many others. Chapelhad to be held earlier as it would have been a huge taskto obscure its many coloured windows.
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Bathing soon began and was gradually reduced tothe early morning swim, which later became a dive for most.This was kept up by a large band of over 20, who were
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keen to beat record (23rd November), but a hard frostwith a tremendous wind which blew straight into the dress-ing room, caused a complete stop on i;th November. TheHead had the following twenty followers:—Portman,Whittall, Pantin, J. B. Nicholson, R. Nicholson, Ingall,M'Call, Forsyth, Bols, W. Faithfull, Soames, Girling, Welch,D. Hogg, Young, Newington, D. Campbell, R. Campbell,Dalrymple, and Earnshaw.
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We had two new masters this term; Mr. R. B. J. Scott,Lincoln College, Oxford (Classics), and Mr. F. J. Forgas,B.A. (Hons. in Mod Langs.), Emmanuel College, Cam-bridge. Mr. 'Shepherd resigned owing to ill-health, so weHad an extra master on the staff.
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We did a considerable amount of war-work: chieflymaking up for shortage of labour, which could not beobtained. Wood-cutting, Bed-making, Raking Leaves,and Gardening, were the chief forms of work.
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weather broke down. These first field days were veryinteresting; one section hid from the other three. In everycase the larger body failed to locate the smaller. Theseattempts gave us some idea of how attempts fail in realwarfare. Our most elaborate plan broke down throughfailure in timing.
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We have had three Lectures this term. The first onOctober 2ist, by Mr. Fletcher on "The Ocean." Thesecond, on November ist, by Mr. Burtt on "Russia," wasa very simple lecture and much appreciated. The lastlecture was on Napoleon, given in French by Mile, de Lisle,on November 17th.
On October 30th, Mr. Bliss, a Cambridge friend ofMr. Forgas, charmed us all by some delightful 'Cello andpiano playing.
Mrs. C. E. Wilson very kindly sent us a supply ofapples, that we might enjoy the ancient pastime of " duck-ing for apples " on Hallow E'en. We tender our gratefulthanks.
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Offertories were given on Sunday, November I2th andon Sunday, December i/th. Full details are given below.
Hearty congratulations to J. B. Nicholson on achiev-ing his ambition by entering for Osborne. He has donevery well here, and will be very much missed. Our other" leavers " are G. B. Portman, our genial Captain and HeadPrefect, who leaves for Haileybury; T. E. D. Kelly andC. D. G. Welch, both for Rugby; J. L. Dalrymple, forWellington; and D. Campbell. They have all been withus many terms and filled places of importance in Schoolor Games or in our plays. We wish them all good luck intheir new spheres, where we hope to hear by and by oftheir successes.
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We were very glad to have, first Mr. J. S. Sharp, nowa Captain in the 5th Berks, and then Mr. Murray Robert-son, now a Captain in the Lancashire Fusiliers, back fromthe Front. The latter, who has been wounded, came forthe Plays: the former came for the first MarlboroughHouse match. Mr. Arnold Jones is the only other oldMaster who visited us, but we had a most interesting letterfrom Mr. Arden, who had spent nearly 4 months at theSomme, in the very front with the guns.
Our Old Boys who have visited us this term, havebeen: W. Soames (Malvern), J. Widdicombe, C. de V.Hinde, W. E. Coles, F. Bradshaw, L. Forsyth, ColonelHinde, D. H. Yatman, F. L. Ingall, C. Lepel-Griffin, L.Montalto, Charles Simmons, and W. R. W. Lockhart.
Our warmest thanks to General and Mrs. Kelly, whohave most kindly sent the School a parting gift on theoccasion of their son finishing his career at Eagle House.This gift is to start an Improvement Fund to be used bythe Headmaster for any improvement or boon to the Schoolwhich he may deem desirable.
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The last was a compulsory visitor as he was invalidedhome from Marlborough for an operation which was suc-cessful. However, as the Vive la said, " it is an ill windthat blows nobody good," and this misfortune brought usjust what we needed, a " coach " for our English Play. Hisillness delayed the start until December, but the resultingperformance fully attested his value as a coach for Shake-sperian Plays.
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On November 4th we had a little Concert organised byRupert Lockhart. An Account is given below.
On December ist we had an unwelcome guest in theform of a nasty catarrh which attacked most of the school,spoiled our XV. for the Lynam's match, and rather up-set our football. The attack was mostly an affair of 48hours, but it was depressing. ' What with this visitation andthe frosts, we had not much more football, the last gamebeing on December ijth.
We had our Term Exams on i3th to i6th December,and then finished up as usual at Christmas with two plays,one French and one English. Owing to the War it wasfelt inappropriate to have a great function, and the playswere in a minor key so to speak. The Taming of theShrew however, proved one of our best performances, bothfor beauty and acting, and was well worthy of our bestdays. Full accounts of both plays are given below.
A MID-TERM CONCERT.
ON Saturday, October 28th, a concert was held in theOak Hall. It was only organised a day or two
beforehand, but even so it proved entertaining.Apart from the School songs, the School was repre-
sented by Pantin, Standage, Portman, Kirwan, and Girling.The first sang, with great charm and sweetness of tone," The Call of the Hay-time." The other four appeared inpart of Act V., scene ii., from " Antony and Cleopatra." Itwas an eleventh hour effort, but they did extremely well.Standage, a magnificent and beautiful figure, as Cleopatra,accomplished his very difficult task excellently, his enuncia-tion being particularly good. Portman as Chairman, putconsiderable feeling into his role, and Kirwan as Iras hadnothing to do but look well, which he did splendidly.
The two best items on the programme were:—Mrs.Hamilton Moore's exquisite singing of " Until," and " TheThrostle " beautifully sung by Mrs. Yatman, who was ather best. Both Mr. Lockhart's and Mr. Wright's songsproved very popular, and Mr. Grant played very nicely.
The Concert was ended by some National Songs sungby the whole School, whose voices have improved. Wehope they may soon be heard in one of the Gilbert and
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Sullivan Operas. What could be better than " lolanthe "with Pantin, Hutchinson, Girling, Edwards, and others?The soloists could easily be found for lolanthe, Phyllis,and the Fairy Queen.
SCHOOL CONCERT.
Part I.1. Song " Forty Years On." .. School Chorus2. Song "The Call of the Maytime." Pantin.3. Vocal Duet " King-Fisher Blue." Mrs. Yatman and
W. R. Lockhart.5. Song "My Queen." Mr. Lockhart.6. Song " Until." Mrs. Hamilton Moore.7. Song "Widdicombe Fair." Mr. Wright.
PART II.1. Song "The Elephant Battery." School Chorus.2. Pianoforte Solo Impromptu (Schubert) Mr. Grant.3. Song "The Throstle." Mrs. Yatman.4. CLEOPATRA AFTER THE DEATH OF ANTHONY.
(From Anthony and Cleopatra, Act 5, Sc. ii.)Cleopatra D. Standage.A Guard H. Girling.Charmian G. Portman.Iras R. Kirwan.
5. Song "To Anthea." Mr. Lockhart.6. Pianoforte Solo Two Preludes (Chopin) W. R. Lockhart.7. The Entente National Songs.
OLD BOYS' COLUMN.
DR. Edmond Warre (E.H. 1845—8), formerly HeadMastre and now Provost of Eton, is the subject of
a fine panegyric in Mr. Shane Leslie's very interesting newbook, " The End of a Chapter." The writer says: "EdmondWarre was one of the greatest of .Eton Head Masters, aGrecian and an oarsman, he epitomised English culture.His brow was Olympian, and he carried the shoulders of aprize-fighter: out of his mouth proceeded praises andpunishments with a sound of inocuous thunder. In classhe often uttered platitudes as impressing as though they
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came from a judge of the living and the dead. Everymorning, as he passed into Chapel behind the solemn fileof his sixth form, performing their traditional goose-stepto the notes of the organ, the school rose to salute him.The light from the east window threw a sightless expres-sion upon his spectacles, always reminding me of jEdipusstepping on to the Greek Stage."
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Mr. Gilbert Macquoid (E.H. 1865—9) sends us anaccount, see below, of his old Eagle House School-fellow,General S. H. Lomax, who commanded the ist Divisionin French's glorious little Army.
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There was an Eagle House wedding at Christchurch,Mayfair, on November 28th, when Harold Hilliard (E.H.1904—7), Lieut., ist Royal Berkshire Regiment, marriedCicely Broadmead, daughter of Colonel H. Broadmead,and sister of Philip Broadmead (E.H. 1904—7) of NewCollege, Oxford, Lieut, in the King's Royal Rifles, who wasat the top of the School in 1907, when Hal Hilliard was ourCricket Captain.
Charles B. Stuart Wortley (E.H. 1863—4) has beenraised to the Peerage by His Majesty King George. Thenew peer had been in the House of Commons since 1880,and had held important offices. He is connected by descentwith a number of noted English families.
WELLINGTON.
Our Wellingtonians are all doing well.
C. Griffin is in Mathematical Sixth and L. Montalto inUpper Second, both play for Lynedoch XV.
F. Bradshaw is in Middle Second, and has his DormitoryCap (Combermere),
Pollard (Upper IVth) and Buck (Middle IVth) are bothin Beresford: the former sometimes plays for hisDormitory.
Boileau (Orange) sometimes plays for his Dormitory, whichis strong: he got a double remove and is in Middle III.
Stephenson (Lower III.) plays for his House (Talbot).Our two new boys, Moore (Orange) and Parker (Hill), are
in Upper IV. and Middle IV., respectively. Stephen-son and Moore played against Eagle House; theformer was very effective.
MARLBOROUGH.K. Paul has left and is in an Artillery Camp.R. Meyrick (IV.) has won an open Scholarship at Em-
manuel, Cambridge, and has got his House Colours(Carter's) and his LX. Cap.
Sale (Sandford's) has also got his House Cap, and gotpromotion in Mod. V.I.
Knight has already reached the Fifth, one year after leav-ing Eagle House.
All our other Marlburians are in Preshute House, andnumber nine in all. Of these Lockhart (Mod. V.l.promoted) has been absent most of the term owingto illness. He has had his Upper two years, so weshould have had three Uppers with Davidson (Mod.Upper II.) and Holmes. Holmes got a LX. Cap.
Holmes and Arthur Fisher (Lower XV. of House) are bothin the Army Class and the latter won a MeshamScience Prize.
Tudor-Hart (Lower V.H.), Bulcock (Mod. Low. Shell),and G. R. C. Wilson (Middle IVA.) all got promotions,and the last named his Form Prize,
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Our two new-comers, C. Pollock and M. Earnshaw havedone well, the former getting into Upper IVB., andEarnshaw (Mid. IVA.) playing on Lower, as do Fisher,Bulcock, and Tudor-Hart.
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BRADFIELD.Our Bradfieldians are reduced to two by Pain's departure.
We saw Ingall twice at Reading and at our Plays. Wewere glad to see him looking so well: no one wouldhave known he had had such a serious illness.
RUGBY.
When Kelly and Welch join next term we should have 8O.E.Hs. at Rugby, but J. Pattinson's time for theWoolwich Competition must come.
R. A. Lloyd (Hardwich's has got his XV. and plays fly-halffor the School.
J. M. Pattinson (School House) has got his cap (i.e. BigSide) and goes up for the Woolwich Exam. soon.
D. Warren has left in order to go into the Army.
W. Liddle (G. F. Bradby's), R. Stapledon (Hawkesworth's),and E. Whittall (School House), are all playing fortheir respective House XVs.
The following quotations speak for themselves:
In a Harrow School Magazine we find the followingtributes to Geff. Hopley and Frank Ledgard,
Second Lieut. Geoffrey W. V. Hopley, son of JudgeHopley, of Southern Rhodesia:
" While outside his trench he was hit by a bullet inthe arm and thigh. He rolled down into a shell-craterbehind the trench and lay there some time. At length,with the greatest difficulty, he crawled up from it andmade his way back into his trench, where his captainand he were the only officers left. Desperatelywounded as he was, his first thought was not for him-self. ' I am afraid, sir,' he said, ' I shall not be muchuse to you; I am sorry, especially as we are so short-handed.' Then followed fourteen weeks in hospital,with alternate hopes and fears, rallies and set-backs,great pain and patience in a losing game, fought outto the end. His last wish expressed to a brother headof his House, who saw him daily in his illness, wasthat he should be buried in Harrow. And so, on asunny summer half-holiday, just such a one as thoseon which, but a few years ago, he used to play crickethere, his body was carried under the Union Jack tothe grave where it rests—in sight of the spire and indistant earshot of the bell."
Lieutenant Ledgard, of the Yorkshire Regiment:" The Germans had got round the flank of " D " Coy.at Ypres where the position was seen to be dangerousby Lieutenant Ledgard. With a shout of ' Come on,lads; death or glory now!" the brave Lieutenant tookup a Maxim gun on his shoulder, advanced to the openfield, placed it in position, and for a few minutesdirected a fierce and telling fire into the enemy, hold-ing them at bay. Then he fell dead, with a bulletwound in the heart."
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C. H. Malan, I.C.S., (E.H. 1891—6) is now Sub-DivisionalOfficer at Rupar in the Punjab.
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W. de M. Malan, I.C.S. (E.H. 1881—86), who is DistrictJudge at Jullundur, has been laid up by an accidentat polo.
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G. P. Pattinson and J. F. H. Parkinson were among theNaval Cadets who have just passed out of R.N.C.,Dartmouth.
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We are glad to see that the King has recognised thegreat work done for the blind by Sir Arthur Pearson, bymaking him a Knight. Sir Arthur was at Eagle House fromMay, '77 to December, '79, when he went on to Winchester.
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Lieut-General Lomax.
Samuel Holt Lomax (" Sammy," as we used to call him),the third son of Thomas Lomax, Esq., of Grove Park,Yoxford, Suffolk, was about nine years old when heentered Eagle House, in 1864. I went there thefollowing year, and we remained at the Schooltogether for more than four years, so that I grew toknow him very well in those early days. The Schoolwas then at Wimbledon under the guidance of Dr.Huntingford. It is difficult to remember those daysvery distinctly, but as I recall him, Lomax was asturdy, popular, and thoughtful boy of frank and com-municative disposition, good at his books, and atgames. He was a great talker, clear headed, tremen-dously fond of argument, and in that way very diffi-cult to get the better of. In fancy I see him now—atypical specimen of a capable and manly British boy.I don't wonder he succeeded in the army, he was sucha delightful fellow. His portrait appears in a photo-graphic group of the whole ScHc-ol taken about theyear 1867.
He went to Rugby in 1869, and obtained hiscommission in 1874. He served as Adjutant of thepoth Light Infantry in the Gaika War of 1878, includ-ing the operations in the Waterkloof and Perie Bush,and the engagement at Taba Indoda. He also servedthroughout the Zulu War of 1879, and was presentin the engagements at Zungin, Nak, Kambulo, andUlundi (Medal and Clasp). In 1880 he gained hisCompany, before he was five and twenty. He wasmade Lieutenant-Colonel in 1897, and Colonel in 1901.Less than three years later he became Brigadier ofthe loth Brigade, 5th Division, Eastern Command, atShorncliffe.
The year 1908 found him a Major-General, andin 1910 he was given command of the First Division,at Aldershot In August, 1914, he went to Francewith his Division in our original Expeditionary Force.Soon afterwards he was mentioned in Lord French'sDispatch, and was made a C.B., and Lieutenant-General for distinguished service. In October, 1914,he was severely wounded at the West Front. I hada cheery letter from him a few weeks afterwards, say-ing he had been a good deal knocked about by a highexplosive shell, but that he was making good progresstowards recovery. I had another letter from him atthe end of February, 1915, and from what he said Ihoped he was going on well. It was therefore, a pain-ful shock to me when I saw in the paper the announce-ment of his death on the loth of the following April.
He was a very fine and experienced officer; theArmy and the country are considerably the poorer bylosing him.
G.S.M.
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THE CHRISTMAS PLAYS,
HERCULE EST RECONNAISSANT.
S usual we had first a French Play. The greatestdifficulty about the French Play is to find a suit-
able piece. We rather fell into the danger, viz., that inavoiding all that you wish to avoid, you get only what isexceedingly dull. " Hercule est reconnaisant" is of thistype. The motife is very thin and there are no situationsthat stir the actor to enter heartily into the feelings ofany character. It must, I think, have been written for aFrench School! It was therefore a very difficult piece forour boys to act, and it cannot be said that any one shewedsuch capacity for acting as to put any life into the scenes.This is not said by any way of blame, as young boys couldnot be expected to create parts out of nothing. They alltried their best. Whittall was the most successful, probablyjust because he was the only one who had lived abroad,and realised a little of the foreigner's ways. His Frenchalso had the best accent, a matter of the utmost impor-tance : great care must be taken not to let our actors loseour reputation for the excellence of their accent as wellas, of their acting. J. Nicholson had far the biggest part,and made a brave effort to galvanise it into some liveliness.The following play-bill will give all the details of the play.Our best thanks are due to Mr. Grant for the great amountof trouble taken over this play.
HERCULE EST RECONNAISSANT.
Dramatis Personae.Louis de Maurevert R. C. H. Kirwan.Tiburce (Servant to Louis) C. D. G. WelchAbraham (Jew Picture Dealer) O. Whittall.FuneVon (A Parasite) E. C. Forsyth.Plumaudent (Journalist) T. E. D. Kelly.Hercule (A Shoe-Maker) J. B. Nicholson.
Hercule has been saved from drowning by Louis, and is veryanxious to show his gratitude. He goes to see him, and refuses to leave,
until finally the latter, who is a lawyer, has to go to a case, leavingHercule in possession. Then Abraham, Fun^bron, and Plumaudent,come to see Louis. The first wants to buy a picture, the second toborrow money, and the third to interview him. Hercule exchanges thepicture for a pair of field glasses, gives these to Fun^bron, and finallyinsults Plumaudent. His help is therefore not greatly to the advantageof Louis.
The Play ends with the departure of Hercule, who finishes by deliver-ing a touching address on the subject of ingratitude.
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.
The writer thinks there is nothing like Shakespearefor a School Play. It can be made thoroughly interesting,both to the players and to the play-goers, and it gives theformer something more than the benefits which other act-ing gives, a taste for something better than " fooling."" The Taming of the Shrew " (reduced a la Martin Harvey,}was admirably staged and acted. Those who filled theleading parts were excellent:—Portman (Petruchio);Soames (Baptista); and Standage (Katharine), but Stand-age's performance was the best of all. The four sceneswere all effectively arranged: the dance invented for thethird scene was very pretty, and the banquet scene wasexcellently staged. The writer preferred the picture at theDress Rehearsal when the head-lights were left in, andsome spectators, thought there was too much realism in theactual banqueting, but these are matters of personalopinion: everyone must have felt that the whole piece was" a thing of beauty and a joy for ever," and for that joywe are mainly indebted to the skill, taste, and perseveringenthusiasm of the producer, Rupert Lockhart, withoutwhom the whole thing would have been impossible.Thanks are also due not only to the actors, who did sowell, but to all who helped to make the plays a success: toMiss Anderson for valuable assistance with the costumes,to Mrs. Yatman for kindly singing, to Mrs. Lockhart for
playing the dance and to Mr. Gawne for the programmes.Sergeant Hewett's work as Stage-Carpenter and assistant-dresser, gave great satisfaction. The play-bill is givenbelow. During the intervals special badges, kindly sent byMiss Violet Vanburgh, were sold for the benefit of theIndian Soldiers' Fund. As only a few visitors had beeninvited, it was very gratifying that so large a sum as nearly£2 was realised in this way.
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.
Dramatis Personae.
Baptista (A rich gentleman of Padua) T. SoamesVincentio (an old gentleman of Pisa) C. D. Wilson.Lucentio (his son and suitor to Bianca) E. L. Bols.Petruchio (suitor to Katharina) G. B. Portman.Gremio (suitor to Bianca) J. A. Earnshaw.Hortensio J. R. B. Neilson.Tranio W. R. Edwards.Biondello (servant to Lucentio) R. M. Ingall.Grumio (servant to Petruchio) H. Girling.Widow D. Hogg.Bianca (daughter to Baptista) D. E. Pantin.Katharina (her sister) D. L. Standage.
Producer and Director Rupert Lockhart.Scene: In Padua and the surrounding country.
Dresses by Nathan, Coventry Street, W.
We are fortunate in being again able to secure anindependent critique of our plays by " Onlooker."
HERCULE EST RECONNAISSANT.
Eagle House has deservedly a great reputation for thestandard of its French Plays—a reputation not unknown tomany who have not been so fortunate as to witness a per-formance. The high-water mark of excellence was prob-
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As years go on it is becoming increasingly difficult tofind new matter in French Plays suitable to School Theat-ricals; the piece chosen must be short, it should not lastlonger than three-quarters of an hour and the charactersmust be few; apart from this the play must be in ModernFrench, so that its educative value may not be lost.
The play itself, owing to the above difficulties, was notworth very much, but we think that more " go " might havebeen put into some of the scenes: for example; Plumau-dent might have shown rather more excitement and angerwhen insulted by Hercule, a few gesticulations would nothave been out of place. The part of Abraham was wellacted; though perhaps he might have helped the audienceto realise the nature of his bargain by showing more sais-faction on making his exit.
The opening scene between de Maurevert (Kirwan)and Tiburce (Welch), was difficult to enliven, and apart
• from the fact that both actors spoke too quickly theyprobably both did all that could be expected of them.
In conclusion we recommend the boys to rememberthat they were playing the parts of Frenchmen, and thatgesticulation, although foreign to the English nature, issecond speech to the majority of European nationalities.
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THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.
" Here is a wonder, if you talk of a wonder!"Indeed it was, one of charm and skill, simply and
prettily staged, a compliment alike to actor and producer.There are some who deem Shakespeare dull and an-
interesting; we are inclined to beg them first to move theirown image from the mirror of such literature before heap-ing such criticism on what is nothing but beautiful. How-ever, we are here to criticise, although in this case, criticismcan be little but praise.
The "Taming of the Shrew," cut down as it needswas, contains three outstanding characters—Petruchio,Baptista, and Kate—the super-dainty Kate, the shrew andmodel wife. The impersonators of these charactersdeserve much congratulation; the success of the play wasin their hands, and worthily did they maintain the tradi-tions of Eagle House acting—Petruchio (Portman), thedeclaimer; Baptista (T. Soames), the much-tried father;and Katharina (Standage), who rose to quite Olympianheights in her last great speech:—" Fie, fie! unknit thatthreatening, unkind brow!" A feature of the play wasthe very pretty dance, wisely introduced after the occasionof Petruchio's marriage: in this Biondello was perhaps themost graceful, though Grunio left little to be desired.
The behaviour of the audience is the best critic of aplay, and in this case there can be no doubt that they werecaptivated entirely by the general excellence of the acting.Lucentio, Gremio and Tranio played their unostentatiousparts well in the spirit of the play. The characters ofBianca and the widow, as also that of Vincentio, wereequally in harmony with the general spectacle.
The last scene—that of the Banquet—formed the" piece de resistance"; the setting was fine and thegrouping undoubtedly picturesque.
Mention has already been made of Kate's great speech,
SHAKESPEARE'S TAMlNti OF THE SHftEW.
EAGLE HOUSE, CHRISTMAS, 1916.
PRODUCED BY W. R. W. LOCKHART.
PETRUCHIO AND KATHARINA.
G. B. Portman. D. SUndage.
but we cannot pass by without tendering our congratula-tions on the mastery of its delivery. The dresses wereuniformly pretty, and the making-up quite well done.
We cannot but know that enormous skill and trouble,must have been spent on the coaching and we feel thatthe success of the play must have been a source of muchcongratulation to the producer—Mr. Rupert Lockhart.
" ONLOOKER."
FOOTBALL.
OUR Fifteen had several very strong points, but it hadone very serious defect; it was entirely devoid of
pace fore and aft. This want handicapped us in all attackas despite all our passing, our wings were always collaredby speedier opponents. To make matters worse, thisdeficiency was followed by misfortune. Charles Faithfull,our Captain and strongest player, was laid aside by unex-pected illness, before the first match. Another drawbackwas that not only did we lose Faithfull's strong play, butour back division was thrown out of gear. R. Nicholsoncould only play scrum, and that was Portman's best place.We tried Portman both as stand-off and as a centre-quarter,but his individualism was too strong for places requiringsuch skill in combination. Our team was therefore, alwaysexperimental, and we never got a satisfactory arrangement.Little Buck was tried as stand-off half, and usually he didwell, but in the return with the Dragons he was too smalland light. The selection of a XV. for that match was adifficult problem. It is easy to be wise after the event,but looking on at the game it seems pretty clear to thewriter that we should have kept R. Nicholson at scrum-half and played Portman stand-off. Even that involved
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taking away Ingall from full back where he did so verywell against Dragons (ist match) and Reading. We hadfour very good old forwards in Faithfull, O. Whittall, MeCall, and Welch. We had to move Faithfull to three-quarter where his tremendous dashes for the line wouldhave been as valuable in attack as his powerful tacklingin defence.
WHITTALL is a great forward in the scrum and in theloose; McCALL is very good in tackling and in gettingthe ball in the " scrum;" while WELCH is the dashingwinger. DALRYMPLE also proved a useful forward, thoughhe did not always produce his best form. J. B. NICHOLSONwas a good " hooker" and an intelligent worker. D.CAMPBELL, though in the first half of the term so dis-appointing as to be relegated to the and XL, regained hisform, and in the end became our fourth forward. T.SOAMES showed in and out form, though he could be veryuseful when he exerted himself. GIRLING was a steadyworker though slow. Of the backs R. KlRWAN was thebest. He was very energetic and a splendid kick, catch,and field. He also much improved in passing. PORTMANas an individualist was very good, on his day; first-rate asa scrum-half. INGALL was an excellent full-back, and afair centre. PANTIN had some strong points in his play,but was not always to be depended on, even for these,while he was far too slow for a " wing." Still by dint ofmuch playing together, he and Kirwan developed veryconsiderably: both were rather slow. HOGG our left-winger was our fastest and rather a neat player, but sosmall ind light that he was often quite ineffective. R.BUCK was also too small: he showed much skill andpromise as a stand-off half, but latterly fell off very much.
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RESULTS.Four matches played. One win. Two defeats. One draw.
Oct. 21st v. Wellington Juniors; Home. Lost, 3—6.Oct. 28th v. Oxford Dragons; Home. Won, 6—o.Nov. i gth v. Reading Juniors; Home. Drawn, 3—3.Dec. 2nd v. Dragons; Away. Lost, 3—17.
EAGLE HOUSE v. WELLINGTON JUNIORS.October 2ist. At Home. Lost, 3—6 points.
Our passing advances at first were good, but it wassoon obvious that owing to the visitors' superior pace andgood tackling, they would not be successful. Our backswere not quick enough to see this and, failing to resort tokicking-to-touch, helped the speedier Wellingtonians to runour forwards off their feet. The forwards too were toblame, as they had no idea of doing anything but heeling-out. The captain ought to have changed the tactics, buthe gave no instructions. Our play was thus wanting in in-telligence and smartness. The tackling too was poor—notlow enough—and twice the visitors scored, both timesthrough their player being allowed to get up and run onafter he had been brought down. As we were more tiredand ragged in the second half, we did still worse, and wereon the defensive most of the time. Luckily for us, theirfull-back made a blunder and Hogg seizing the oppor-tunity, sprinted in at the S.E. corner. The goal was notkicked but the try reduced the margin to 3 points against.Owing to Faithfull's absence we tried Welch at three-quarter.
Our XV.—Ingall: Welch, Pantin, Kirwan, Hogg:Portman (Capt.) and R. A. G. Nicholson: Whittall, McCall,Dalrymple, Soames, J. B. Nicholson, Girling, Kelly, Camp-bell, and Forsyth,
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EAGLE HOUSE v. THE DRAGONS (O.P.S.).At Home. Saturday, October 28th. Won, 6—o points.
A good day and ground with two well matched teams,gave us a splendid match, with play more hard thanbrilliant. There was little difference in weight; we hadthe advantage in combination and knowledge of the game,but this was largely counter-balanced by the visitors' greatsuperiority in pace. We had a number of fine passingbouts, but could not get past, Pantin being always broughtdown by a much faster vis-a-vis on their left When wehad worked up to their line a clear case of off-side gaveus a penalty, and Kirwan dropped a fine goal. The gamewent on in ding-dong fashion. We got the ball oftener,but our wings were always tackled, while the visitors'passing usually broke down. At last Portman completelydrew their right wing, then passed to Hogg, who sprinteddown the touch-line from nearly half-way, passed theirback, and scored in the N.W. corner. Kirwan's kickmissed: score 6—0. The Dragons had one great run, butIngall brought his man down, and we crossed over withsix points up.
The second half was very like the first, only we madesome good forward rushes as well as passing runs, butwe could not get through. Play was of a give and takecharacter, but was mainly in our favour for most of thetime. A slow team, however, always take more out ofthemselves in trying to cope with faster opponents, andat the last the pace told: the Dragons came away with agreat rush, and one of their runners bore straight downon our line. Ingall brought him down in fine style. Fromthe ensuing scrum near our line we got some relief, andkept them out until time. Our backs did well consideringtheir inferiority in pace; Kirwan was the best, his kickingbeing of immense value. Whittall was easily the bestforward and was in the front of all the rushes. The next
best were Welch and McCall, and then Dalrymple. Therewas a lack of quickness in seeing what should be done.Our XV.: Ingall: Pantin, Kirwan, Portman (capt), Hogg:R. Nicholson and R. Buck: Whittall, Welch, McCall,Dalrymple, Soames, J. Nicholson, Girling and Forsyth.
EAGLE HOUSE v. READING JUNIORS.At Home. Sat., Nov. 18th. Drawn: try each.
The weather was appalling; the ground slightly coatedwith snow, and light snow was falling.
We started off passing out, but the slippery ball causedmistakes which led to a lack of confidence. Their rightthree-quarter, the biggest and fastest player on the field,got away from one of these mistakes and scored fromhalf-way, brushing past Hogg and Ingall with ease; 3—o.We still failed to " tumble to the conditions," and wereall at sixes and sevens. The packs were well matched,but outside we were over-weighted and out-paced. Thefirst half was scrambling and pretty equal, each sidemaking some threatening attacks, but there was no scoring.In the second half we got on much better and, playingmore of a forward game, we kept an almost constantpressure on the visitors' line, but we could not get throughagainst the strong tackling and pace of their backs. Wetried every means, passing runs, forward rushes, andindividual dashes for the line. The passing was the leastsuccessful, but several individual efforts nearly succeeded,and once Buck grounded within inches of the line. Apenalty near the line failed, Kirwan trying a drop. Atlast Whittall dribbled over and secured the try. Kirwan'skick failed, the ball being now very heavy. All the visitors'efforts to break away were frustrated by Ingall's sound playat full back, and they only once got to our 25. We, how-
ever, could not score against their strong defence, and thegame ended in a draw, 3 points all.
Our combination balanced their pace and weight, butwas badly affected by the slush, as the backs could notpass with accuracy or safety. R. Nicholson did very well,and Kirwan after half-time was good. Pantin tackled well,and Ingall's good display has been mentioned. Theforwards were sluggish in the first half, but wakened upand did well as a pack. Whittall, McCall and Welch werethe best, and did a lot of hard and good work. Campbellwas conspicuous in rushes, and J. Nicholson worked well.Team as v. Dragons, except Campbell instead of Forsyth.
EAGLE HOUSE "A" v. MARLBOROUGH HOUSE,READING.
At Home. Sat., 25th Nov. Won. 11 points to nil.
This was an excellent match, well contested allthrough. Owing to R. Nicholson's illness we had to playPortman at scrum half, but to make up for this playedYoung, a novice, as centre " Three." The visiting forwardswere quite able to hold their own with us in pushing andfoot-work, but we were better at getting the ball, and sogot our backs constantly on the offensive. Their backsdefended well, but could not get on the attack, so we hadthe best of it on the whole, but had to work for our win.In fact we were hard put to it to score. Ingall had a finerun in the first half. In the second half Buck cleverlydodged through, and just on time Portman fell over theline from the base of the scrum. kicked a goalfrom try.
Mr. Gawne refereed admirably; Mr. Jones said hehad rarely seen such good refereeing. Our XV. was:
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]. Eamshaw: Pantin, Ingall, Young, and Bols: Portmanand Buck: J. B. Nicholson, Soames, Campbell, Kelly, W.Faithfull, Girling, Standage and Cassels.
EAGLE HOUSE v. OXFORD DRAGONS. (Return).
At Oxford, Saturday, Dec. 2nd. Lost, 3—17 points.
The first Saturday in December is the usual date ofour second match with the Dragons, and it is usually anunlucky day for ailments. This year was no exception.A sharp attack of catarrh, which laid low almost all theschool, attacked us on December 1st, with the result thatnearly half of our XV. were below par with incipient colds.As these included the two backs who are the mainstay ofthe team, we started for Oxford with very little hope ofdoing ourselves justice. The only bit of good luck was,that if the attack had come twenty-four hours earlier, weshould not have been able to have go at all.
We lost the toss, and playing against the wind, madeone of our old feeble starts which we had hoped were athing of the past. The attempts at defence by one of ourbacks deserved severe criticism, but, as he was really illnext day, we shall refrain. This let the Dragons near ourline, and though several attacks were repulsed, the speedof their backs gave them a good try. No goal was kicked,and from the kick-out we took the offensive, rushing wellinto their 25, where Welch scored in the corner, after agood run. Kirwan made a good shot which just missed,3—3. We then attacked strongly and Pantin made threeor four dashes for the line, but every time was tackled orbundled into touch. Then a bad pass gave the Dragonstheir chance, and in a second they were right up at our
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line. We drove them back to the 25, where their wingbroke away from the touch throw. Our players aver heran in touch, but no flag went up and a try was awarded.There was no goal: 6—3. The fight was still hot at our25, when another disaster occurred through our Captainpassing the ball politely to the home Captain who carriedit straight behind our line, making the score 9—3 againstus. Half-time came soon after. With the breeze in ourfavour, we hoped to do better, and so we did " territorially."Good kicking gained us a very favourable place near thehome line and we were on the offensive for a long time,but our attacks lacked " sting," and the Dragons' defencewas keen and strong. They forced us back outside their25 where another disaster occurred. Portman tried a longthrow-out from touch, but it landed right in the hands ofthe home Captain. He broke clean away, and had onlyto swerve past the full back and score after a run of nearlythree-quarters the length of the field. The kick at goalfailed again; 12—3. The play surged back and forwardfrom 25 to 25, but our attacks were lifeless, while theDragons nearly got in again. Then they had a bout ofpassing: their last three-quarter knocked his pass-on verybadly, but he was not stopped and ran to our goal mouth.From the ensuing scrum they secured the touch and kickedthe easy goal. Time came soon after, with the result i 7—3against us. The better side on the day won. Theirsuperiority was almost entirely in pace: otherwise the sideswere very .well matched. We were considerably below ourbest form and did not get the ball more than 4 times outof 10 against 8 times out of 10 in the first match, while ourtwo best backs were unable to do themselves justice. Wemissed J. B. Nicholson's hooking.
Our XV. was as follows:—Forsyth: Pantin, Kirwan,Ingall, and Hogg: Portman and R. Buck: O. Whittall,McCall, Welch, Dalrymple, Campbell, Girling, Soames andW. Faithfull.
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THE SECOND FIFTEEN.The 2nd XV. contained come players who were quite
useful, and several of these occasionally helped the first.The best were; W. Faithfull, Kelly, Forsyth, Standage,and Cassels, forwards; and Young, Bols, and Gamon,behind. The others were Talbot, Edwards, and Elderton,forwards; and behind, Graham, Knight, Neilson, and J.Earnshaw, the last was one of the best.
They only played one pure 2nd XV. match, losing atOxford against the 2nd team of the O.P.S., but an A teamcomposed of the top half of the Second, and the lower halfof the first had two splendid matches v. MarlboroughHouse, Reading. They just lost the first and won thereturn.
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The Wells House match should have been played onNovember i8th, but illness at Wells House caused it to beabandoned. This was a great disappointment, as a goodmatch was anticipated.
The Seconds' return with the Dragons was alsoabandoned, on account of the Government's appeal againstexcessive travelling.
OFFERTORIES.
OUR usual Offertory was taken on Sunday, November12th, and £8 were contributed for the fees of a
Naval Cadet at the Watt Naval School at Elmham. It wasfelt that some more direct contribution in aid of WarSufferers, was desirable, and a Christmas Offering was
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taken on Sunday, December i7th, when the Head deliveredan address on their needs and our duty. The Offertoryamounted in all to £12 i6s. This was divided into fourequal sums and one sent to each of the following:—TheSerbian National Relief Fund, The Belgian National ReliefFund, The Lord Kitchener National Memorial, and LadyLansdowne's Fund for Officers' Families.
CHAPEL.
OUR Te Deums this term have been R. Smart in D.,and Maunders II. in —. Most of the other music
has been simple Chants and Hymns.On the last Sunday and other nights, we had some
Carols. The great favourite is " Once in Old Judaea," thesolos were taken by Hutchinson, Girling, and Edwards.
Sermons have been given on the following subjects:—" Readiness," " Faithfulness," " Elisha," " Joash," " Esther,"" The Saints," " The Writing on the Wall," " Nehemiah,"" Advent," and " Our Duty to War-Sufferers."
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SCHOOL OFFICERS FOR THE TERM.
C. K. T. Faithfull was Head Prefect, but as he had toleave early in the term through illness, he had to resignall his offices.
SENIOR PREFECTS.
G. B. Portman—Head Prefect, Captain of
Football, and Captain of " Buckler."
R. C. H. Kirwan—Prefect and Captain of " Clarion."
O. Whittall—Prefect and Captain of " Anchor."
SUB-PREFECTS.
J. B. Nicholson—Sub-Prefect and Second in " Clarion."
D. Pantin—Sub-Prefect and Captain of "Gauntlet" and" Helmet."
T. Kelly—Sub-Prefect and Second in " Buckler."
T. Soames—Second in " Anchor."
JUNIOR CAPTAIN.
Cassels (K.); Edwards (J.); Knight (D.); Appleton (E.);Thomas (F.).
Heads of Workshop—A: J. Nicholson and R. Nicholson.B: H. Girling and M. Ingall.
Librarians—H. Girling (Chief), and G. Welch (Second).
Junior: Neilson and Wilson.
Tabellarius—D. Hogg.
Chapel Clerks—Kirwan, Kelly, and Soames,
END OF TERM.
THE Plays were the thing this term but we had all theother things as well. It was a great rush to get
everything in after the Plays. First came Tea, then PocketMoney, and then Journey. We were quite 15 minutes latewhen we mustered in Hall for Prize-Giving and Sing-Song.
The Head compressed his view of the term and gaveout the following Prizes:—
FORM PRIZES.
I.—J. B. Nicholson. IVA.—Cassels.II.—R. Nicholson. IVB.—Hutchinson.III.—P. Kirwan. V.—G. Hogg.
A Special Prize for the best pianist was given toNewington, and another (presented by R. W. LockharOto D. Pantin for Singing.
Then followed the Sing-Song, an arrangement whichsomehow prevented the traditional cheering. The Pro-gramme is given below. The most interesting item was thepopular "Barcarolle" from Offenbach's "Tales of Hoff-mann," sung as a duet by Pantin and Edwards. Pantin'svoice should be a great help to the School Music.
PROGRAMME: XMAS TERM, 1916.
1. School Song Carmen Aquilinum2. Song Mrs. Yatman.3. School Song " Forty Years On." School Chorus.4. Duet " Barcarolle." Pantin and Edwards.5. Piano Solo Newington.6 Song Rupert Lockhar.t.7. School Song " Stags in the Forest Lie." School Chorus.8. The Vive La.9. Russian National Anthem.
French " La Marseillaise."English "Rule Britannia."
God Save The King.Auld Lang Syne,
AUGUST, 1916.Height. Weight. Height. Weight.
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Form II.R. Nicholson ...O. Whittal ...E. C. Forsyth ...D. HoggD. StandageR. M. Ingall ...D. PantinC. K. T. FaithfullJ. Dalrymple
Form III.P. KirwanE. BolsJ. Earnshaw ...K. GrahamW. Faithfull ...D. YoungC. WilsonR. BuckT. SoamesR. NeilsonN. D. CampbellJ. McCall
Form iVa.A. J. Cassels ...P. PalmerW. Edwards ...P. TalbotW. NewingtonG. KnightG. SwineyR. Campbell ...W. TaylorW. Pollock ...D. Conran
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The Editor thanks the following Subscribers for sub-scriptions for 1916.
Capt. Murray Robertson (also for 1917), 2nd LancashireFusiliers, B.E.F.
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Mrs. Appleton, Rawdon Hill, Arthington, Near Leeds.
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Mrs. Forsyth, 8, Harcourt House, Cavendish Square, W.
R. Stapledon, Knapp, East Anstey, Devon.
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D. H. Yatman, Esq., Woodsjde, Crowthorne, Berks. (Also191;.).
Mrs. Wood, The Vicarage, Whitchurch, Bucks.
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W. de M. Malan, Esq., I.C.S., Jullundur, India. (For 8years).
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Rev. A. R. Wiseman, Scale Rectory, Surrey.
T. Gambier-Parry, Esq., Elmhurst, Goring-6n-Thames.(Also 1917).
Mrs. Pain, St. Catherine's, Frimley, Surrey.Rev. J. W. Corbould-Warren, Caistor Hall, Norwich.D. H. Yatman, (For 1917), F. H. Moore, and Guy Whin-
yates (also for 3 previous years), Royal Society's ClubSt. James.'
The Editor would greatly value any information aboutOld Boys, especially about those who are serving in theWar. Corrections of errata would also be welcome.
N.B.—It would greatly facilitate the delivery of Maga-zines if those whose residence changes often, would givea permanent address such as an Agent's or Banker's.